KIU, Main Campus - A 30 year old COVID-19 patient and resident of Nazigo Central Ward in Nazigo Town Council, who was hiding in a class room block ceiling, was on 31st May 2020, recovered by a combined operation of police, army and medical workers in Kayunga District.

According to Kayunga Resident District Commissioner, Kikomeko Mwanamwoiza, the patient is a truck driver who tested positive for COVID-19 at Lwakhakha border point in Namusindwa District as he returned from Kenya, where he had taken pineapples.

"When the results revealed that he was positive, the medical team in Kayunga was informed and given all details of the patient. However, efforts to get him to the hospital for treatment proved futile as we could not locate him and his relatives also said they didn't know his whereabouts," said Mwanamwoiza.

The Kayunga District Police was forced to swing into action after receiving information that the patient had been spotted at his relative’s home and taking food to a nearby primary school called Canon Junior School.

The Resident District Commissioner reported that the patient, after his arrest, was taken to Jinja Regional Referral Hospital where he is receiving treatment, and also that a number of his relatives were also quarantined at Kayunga Hospital.